mkultra25
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Shallow blue water belongs in the toilet more than in the bayous
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There were some folks live-tweeting the event yesterday, including Hines' official Twitter account, but I think bobruss captured almost all the significant points mentioned by the tweeters:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/HinesArchitecturalForum?src=hash
I had tickets but had to be somewhere else shortly after the Forum was scheduled to end, and wouldn't have been able to make it in time if I'd attended.
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If money weren't an issue...P85D.
I love Car & Driver's review of the P85D (http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-tesla-model-s-p85d-first-drive-review):
A clot of Corollas can be dispatched with one quiet leap forward, putting those Toyotas in the only place they look good: the rearview mirror. -
Not even two weeks after Gene Elston passes, and now Milo joins him. Those two guys were Astros baseball for multiple generations.
Two indelible broadcasting memories: Mike Scott's division-clinching no-hitter in 1986, and Chris Burke's 18th-inning walk-off homer in the 2005 division series that sent the Astros to the NLCS.
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You can get a license plate tag from HCTRA.
Didn't realize that, but I see it now on their website. Looks like there are quite a few car models that have known problems with the window-mounted tags not being readable.
Even better, it looks like the plate-mounted tags don't require a completely unobstructed line of sight to work - I found a couple of references to people affixing them inside the grille out of sight, and they apparently work just fine there. Good to know.
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There's also a JITB at 3425 Ella Blvd, near the intersection of Ella and W. 34th and Waltrip High School. It was one of the old-style JITB restaurants, which is apparent when you look at it despite some modest updates.
Just noticed last week that this JITB has closed - signage has been removed and leasing contact info posted. It had been in operation for over 40 years, and was the last one I'm aware of locally that still retained the appearance of the old-style "boxy" stores despite the updates over the years. My wife commented that she'd heard that it was one of the poorest-performing locations in the chain, which I found surprising given its close proximity to Waltrip.
Not the same one, but the building resembled this one:
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It's been several years since I was last on any Austin-area toll roads, but at the time I didn't think the bill-by-plate fee was all that onerous. I didn't have a TXTag and was happy to pay the extra 50 cents or whatever it was, given how infrequently I was traveling to Austin on business.
I definitely agree that Harris County needs to get with the program and implement a similar bill-by-plate system. I'd also like to see tags that attach to the license plate. I really dislike having yet another large, unsightly tag permanently affixed to my windshield.
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Manon has a well-known rape scene in it. Complaints about people bringing their kids to see it are not exactly a recent development:
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Ahhhh, an Austinite. That explains everything.
Not just an Austinite. A butthurt Austinite.
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2016 Bentley Bentayga
http://www.carscoops.com/2015/09/bentley-bentayga-will-be-most-expensive.html
Super lux automakers adding SUVs to their lineup. Expect competition for this coming from Rolls-Royce and Lamborghini.
Lamborghini has had the Urus planned for 2017 for the past several years. It should be a much more refined successor to the 1986-1993 LM002, aka "the truck with a V12".
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I just ran across this yesterday, which provides a fairly well-stated case for why containers aren't repurposed for housing more frequently:
http://markasaurus.com/2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-container-housing-everything/
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I'll be in a small town called Dessau. Its about an 1 1/2 hrs south of Berlin and 1 hr north of Leipzig. And to answer another question that would have been asked. Its an MA in Architecture.
Being an architect, I'm assuming this is already at or near the top of your list.
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It might have been discussed before but it's new to me! It looks great - though the article didn't seem to mention what the selling price was when they finished...
HCAD's appraised value in 2011 (a couple of years after this piece was written) was 269K, and their stated market values for 2014 and 2015 are running 100K+ over appraised value. My guess is the sales price was in the 250-300K range.
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Pretty sure this house has been discussed here before:
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The 1923 Majestic was both a vaudeville house and a motion picture theater.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1672
There's some discussion of its vaudeville background in David Welling's book Cinema Houston - you can view it via Google Books, although not all pages are available:
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Man, the list of stores remind me of how things have changed in terms of what stores you expect to see in a Houston mall. Now it's all Teavana, Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, etc. But back when I was a kid (born in 1976), it wasn't a shopping mall if it didn't have:
A Walgreens
Hickory Farms
B Dalton's or Waldenbooks
A cafeteria (usually Piccadilly or Wyatt's)
A pet store
A Florsheim shoes (that's all my dad used to wear back in the day)
A piano store
A Sticks n Wicks
Orange Julius
An arcade
And an in-mall movie theater
Also, I was tickled to see a "One's a Meal".
It's truly unfortunate that One's A Meal is no more.
What really stands out on that Northline map is the number of shoe stores. Northline was certainly not a big mall by modern standards, but it somehow managed to support no less than seven shoe stores and one shoe repair shop.
Also, I never realized that Freeland's Pet Shop was originally in the mall. By the time I started going there, they'd already relocated to the strip center on the south side of Crosstimbers, next to Shakey's Pizza.
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I've picked up a lot of pizzas from Pink's since they opened, but at this point I've gotten pretty burned out on them. Chicago Italian Beef & Pizza on Airline is better.
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It's definitely Northline. The stores visible in the picture match the layout on this map:
http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/files/legacy/northline.pdf
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Not so much negativity as amusement. I'm sure I'll give them a try once they're open. And I'll be thinking of Duane Allman when I do.
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Mellow Mushroom coming to a soon to be repurposed tote the note shop.
I couldn't resist Googling Mellow Mushroom after reading the HBJ description of "an Atlanta-based hippy pizza chain". I envisioned a place where psilocybe cubensis had once been the most popular pizza topping (inevitably leading to an unofficial motto of "our pizza will make you puke, but you won't care"), and judging from the pics at http://mellowmushroom.com/about/roots, I wasn't too far off.
Of course, like many other establishments, it appears to have evolved into just another hipster haven pushing craft beer, its original brand comfortably diluted and sanitized for consumption by those who wouldn't know the difference between a cow patty and Shinola. Oh, the humanity!
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She's tan, rested, and ready: Kathy for May...um, Rail Czar:
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Who can forget Beautiful Southwest Houston?
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Event Link; Please Share and Invite
WE ARE CALLING ON OUR FELLOW CITIZENS TO COMMIT TO A DAY OF RAGE FOR SANDRA BLAND and all who have been murdered at the hands of ruthless law enforcement officials who know no honour.
HOUSTON will join countless cities around the United States as we rise up in unison and call for Sandra Bland’s justice.
This will be a day of NON-VIOLENT protesting for the atrocities caused and justified by the very people we pay to "serve and protect" us all. We must show them that they work for US. WE pay the taxes that is their pay checks and we must let them know that their "hunt and slaughter" technique will NOT be tolerated any longer.
WE WELCOME PEOPLE OF ALL COLOUR, RACE, CREED, AND NATIONALITY TO JOIN US IN THIS CAUSE.
With respect, do you really want to invoke the spirit of the Weathermen in Chicago with the name you've chosen at the same time you're emphasizing the non-violent nature of the protest?
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Alley Theatre At 615 Texas Ave.
in Downtown
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Video tour of the interior from the Press:
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/get-ready-to-park-your-butts-in-brand-new-seats-at-the-alley-theatre-7777123